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What the people are thinking. On the right, a Human Events query of its readers: do you think President Nixon should be impeached or that he should resign? brought in 200 letters, 75 per cent of which oppose both impeachment and resignation. … A more detailed survey by Fulton Lewis’ Exclusive (also directed to conservative readers) reaches much the same conclusion: Nixon should stay in office, 73 per cent; he should be impeached and cleared, 18 per cent; he should resign, 4 per cent; he should be impeached and found guilty, 2 per cent; a constitutional amendment should be passed to permit new presidential elections in similar (God help us) situations, 3 per cent. … A recent National Observer plebiscite of its readers on the question of compulsory federal gasoline rationing showed 75 per cent opposed, 24 per cent in favor. The figures in Exclusive were much more onesided: 97 per cent against rationing, 3 per cent for. . . . On abortion, a little over a year after the Supreme Court decision, the country remains evenly divided: 47 per cent favor abortion (within the first three months), and 44 per cent are opposed. A year ago it was 46 in favor, 45 opposed: 61 per cent of the Catholics oppose it.

One story of the Hearst kidnapping has it that the Hearsts went to Mexico to try to contact French revolutionary journalist Régis Debray and get him to intercede with the SLA for Patricia’s release. It is known that Debray (he was with Che Guevara when Guevara was killed in Bolivia) was recently refused a visa to visit the United States. The Hearsts have also contacted Dennis Banks, head of the American Indian Movement, who says he will try to get in touch with the SLA and get them to give Patricia a “pass” to visit her family for a limited time. . . . Interdependent, the new magazine of the UN Association of the United States, reports 268 people have been killed in international terrorist attacks in the last six years, and 517 wounded. The attacks have cost $163 million in destroyed property and netted $32 million in ransom payments.

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What the people are thinking. On the right, a Human Events query of its readers: do you think President Nixon should be impeached or that he should resign? brought in 200 letters, 75 per cent of which oppose both impeachment and resignation. … A more detailed survey by Fulton Lewis’ Exclusive (also directed to conservative readers) reaches much the same conclusion: Nixon should stay in office, 73 per cent; he should be impeached and cleared, 18 per cent; he should resign, 4 per cent; he should be impeached and found guilty, 2 per cent; a constitutional amendment should be passed to permit new presidential elections in similar (God help us) situations, 3 per cent. … A recent National Observer plebiscite of its readers on the question of compulsory federal gasoline rationing showed 75 per cent opposed, 24 per cent in favor. The figures in Exclusive were much more onesided: 97 per cent against rationing, 3 per cent for. . . . On abortion, a little over a year after the Supreme Court decision, the country remains evenly divided: 47 per cent favor abortion (within the first three months), and 44 per cent are opposed. A year ago it was 46 in favor, 45 opposed: 61 per cent of the Catholics oppose it.

One story of the Hearst kidnapping has it that the Hearsts went to Mexico to try to contact French revolutionary journalist Régis Debray and get him to intercede with the SLA for Patricia’s release. It is known that Debray (he was with Che Guevara when Guevara was killed in Bolivia) was recently refused a visa to visit the United States. The Hearsts have also contacted Dennis Banks, head of the American Indian Movement, who says he will try to get in touch with the SLA and get them to give Patricia a “pass” to visit her family for a limited time. . . . Interdependent, the new magazine of the UN Association of the United States, reports 268 people have been killed in international terrorist attacks in the last six years, and 517 wounded. The attacks have cost $163 million in destroyed property and netted $32 million in ransom payments.